Our Lady of Fandom; Sunday [ 12/17 ]

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Chrono couldn't help but scratch his head a bit. "Rosette, do I want to know why this habit has been cut up like this?"

From where she was stretched out in a pew, one arm drapped over her eyes, Rosette groaned. So...many...drinks last night. She shook her head lightly, avoided the question. "We should really get the ladders out and take all those foam arrows off the statues..."

Even just casting his eyes upward toward the statues made Chrono's neck and back ache. The thought of carrying the ladders, climbing them, reaching up to clean things reminded him of a much worse pain. He grunted. "Can't we leave them? They look, uhh...festive."

That didn't sound like Chrono at all. Frowning, Rosette clawed her hand on the back of the pew to help her up, and she looked at him. He turned his head toward her; blue eyes failed to meet red, because they met, instead, a strange wall between them that hadn't been there yesterday. Chrono turned away first, which eventually drew Rosette's eyes away.

"I'll go make some tea," he offered, heading for the basement.

"Yeah...tea," Rosette frowned at the floor. Maybe she'd just imagined it. Maybe it was just the hangover messing with her. "Tea's good."


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Rosette arched an eyebrow over another sip of tea. "Y'look good for your age," she complimented, although she did live with a thousands year old demon who looked like he was twelve...or twenty-four, depending. "So...are the hearts still like human hearts? Or do they function entirely different, an' it's just the outside of you that looks people-ish."

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"Oh, same sort of function, hearts. There to circulate the blood, love others, etcetera, etcetera," the Doctor said. "And you look good for your age as well, I may well say." He took a sip of his tea.

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"Do'ya even know how old I am?" Rosette asked, grinning and highly amused. "A bit shy of a thousand years, I gotta admit, so that makes it a little less impressive."

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"Haven't a clue," the Doctor said. "But for any age, you'd be looking fantastic, so I stand by my statement." He smiled. "There's got to be something I can do, something to help with the long boughts of quiet here." He sipped the tea again and thought.

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Rosette was very glad to have tea to grin into so it didn't appear so much that she was smiling like an idiot at that. He was good at this whole thing. She wondered if her face was as pink as it felt.

"Oh, but even this is helping a lot," she told him. "Even just having visitors is a grand, exciting event around here, even if its just to have tea and discuss redecorating ideas. And then there's the gift. That'll definately help the boughts of quiet later on."

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"Ah, but drinking alone is no solution at all, really," the Doctor said. "Ever... thought about putting in a pinball machine?"

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"Oh, I won't be alone," Rosette waved a dismissive hand. "I'll be trying to get Chrono to try some." She realized that the little guy hadn't returned from fetching another cup and looked around with a frown. "Wonder where he went?" she muttered slightly. "He's been acting so stra--"

Rosette shook her head a moment, and sipped at her tea. "Pinball machine?"

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"You've not heard of pinball machines?" the Doctor thought for a second. "When are you from?"

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"1926," Rosette squared her shoulders proudly, then a grin crept onto her face. "I guess that does, technically, make me older than I originally let on."

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"Time's all relative, anyways," the Doctor said. "So you've not had the chance to discover all the fine advances in the electronic entertainment industry. We'll have to change that. I understand there's a couple places on this island that have a few arcade machines."

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"Yeah?" Rosette bounced a little, carefully, as not to spill any of her tea. "There's so much I gotta catch up on; I'd love to check 'em out."

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"Then we have a mission," the Doctor said. "I always thought a church could use a nice pinball machine. Or Pac-Man. Every place could use some Pac-Man." He laughed. "It'll be fantastic, it really will."

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"Pac-Man?" Rosette giggled a little, shook her head. "Sometimes tells me I should just wait and see before I ask anymore questions."

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"Yes, that's one better seen than explained, absolutely," the Doctor said. "This tea was excellent, thank you." He set down the empty cup.

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"Oh, you're welcome!" Rosette set down her cup, too, although she hadn't finished her tea. "I'd tell you to thank Chrono, really, 'cause he made it, but he seems to have disappeared completely." She shrugged, with a slight sigh. OH, wellll. He was probably finding a corner to brood in.

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"Wonder where he's gone," the Doctor said. "Does he often wander off on you?"

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"No, not usually," Rosettes said with a worried frown. "But he's been acting strange all day. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he knew about last night and is being a little....weird about it."

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"Last night was perfectly innocent," the Doctor said. "Sounds like the choir boy is getting a little uppity." He thought for a second. "You don't think he's got feelings for you, do you?"